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Skip to contentDamageUncovering damage to subjectivityMenuMagazineAboutSubscribeShopSupportUsingOur rationalizations for using social media are much more sophisticated than those for using drugs.Anselm McGovernMay 4, 2022May 4, 2022Voluntary Twitter Extinction SocietySocial media is both an expression of the crisis of the social that pre-exists the internet and a potent accelerator of that crisis. Solving this does not mean fixing online. It means changing, IRL, the society that makes life empty and atomized in the first place. John TereseApril 28, 2022The Internet is Made of DemonsThe Internet Is Not What You Think It Is is not what you think it is.Sam KrissApril 21, 2022April 21, 2022Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy AgainThe Class Matrix is essential reading. It’s too bad it’s wasted on academics.Cale BrooksMarch 30, 2022April 1, 2022Tomorrow Sex Will Be Safe AgainOn the psycho-sexual cartography of PMC feminism.Kasumi BorczykFebruary 23, 2022February 23, 2022Dry CapitalismThe new culture of sobriety is deeply complementary to the joyless, achievement-oriented, toxic positivity of the neoliberal age.James Rushing DanielFebruary 16, 2022February 16, 2022What Are We Looking At? Don’t Look Up is not a good movie. That the Left insists otherwise is not a good sign.Aurora BorealisFebruary 2, 2022February 2, 2022Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Five: Elite BetrayalYou don’t notice, and you don’t notice that you don’t notice, and you don’t bring it up.Lizzie WarrenJanuary 19, 2022January 19, 2022There is No Red PillThe red pill/blue pill metaphor has survived the last two decades, which should be strange: the choice it describes no longer exists.Sam KrissJanuary 12, 2022January 11, 2022“The Fulfilled Utopia”Theodor W. Adorno on devouring ice cream, smiling at female store clerks, and being a sissy.Theodor AdornoDecember 20, 2021December 24, 2021No End to Neoliberalism in GermanyWhat can be expected of Germany’s “traffic light” coalition? More (eco-)austerity, more privatization, more disciplining of the Eurozone, and more disciplining of the working class.Bernhard PirklDecember 15, 2021December 15, 2021In Defense of Art, Part Three: For a Revival of Fine ArtPainting, drawing and sculpture, although they are always the bearers of ideological elements, and acquire significant aspects of their particular forms through socio-economic influences, are, as material practices, no more reducible to ideology than are childhood, spermatozoa, or, above all, ‘man’.Peter FullerDecember 8, 2021December 8, 2021In Defense of Art, Part Two: For a Humanist Historical MaterialismAlthusserianism is the Pauline Christology of Western Marxism: an attempt to reconcile revolutionaries to the indefinite delay of the communist Parousia through escape into abstract texts and theories. Yet in our experience of art, even the most psychotic among us sometimes get hints that we exist as a limited, physical organism, subject to birth, bodily existence and death.Peter FullerDecember 8, 2021December 8, 2021In Defense of Art, Part One: For a Psychological Reductionist Account of ArtBy learning to look, and to see, one can—admittedly within certain limits—penetrate the veil of ideology in which the art of the past is immersed. Experience is not wholly determined by ideology, and our experience of works of art, of any era, need be no exception to this if we learn to attend to the evidence of our eyes.Peter FullerDecember 2, 2021December 8, 2021What We Overlook In The ShiningThere is a way out of the obsessive and paranoid world of interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s classic film. All you have to do to find it is become an adult.Cale BrooksNovember 19, 2021November 23, 2021More Green Moralizing A response to Trey Taylor’s “Another Hedonism is Possible.”Anselm McGovernNovember 10, 2021November 10, 2021Another Hedonism is PossibleA Review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living.Trey TaylorNovember 10, 2021November 10, 2021On Paranoid Culture, Part One: An Apocalyptic Jewish Sect Goes MainstreamThe only way to read “The Gospel According to Matthew” today is not to read it.Aurora BorealisOctober 27, 2021October 27, 2021The Trouble with “Defund”There is nothing progressive about austerity.Dominic KingOctober 14, 2021October 14, 2021Class Politics and Status PoliticsAn excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.Joseph R. GusfieldOctober 6, 2021October 6, 2021The Logic of Empire: Blowback and the Brutishness of American Foreign PolicyBlowback Season Two is a welcome advance on Season One, but the show might have outgrown its title.Thomas FieldSeptember 29, 2021September 29, 2021The Covid BlackmailBenjamin Bratton’s The Revenge of the Real develops the “temporary” state of emergency of (failed) pandemic governance into a justification of governing society on that basis indefinitely. It’s a deeply anti-social vision of society.Tony PerrySeptember 22, 2021September 22, 2021Why the CCC is DOASunrise’s Civilian Climate Corps is a strong proposal. It’s a shame that the class struggle orientation needed to realize it is wholly absent.Fred StaffordSeptember 16, 2021September 16, 2021Is This the Green New Deal?A response to Adam Tooze on the dawning “post-neoliberal” era.John TereseSeptember 14, 2021September 14, 2021From 9/11 to Ted LassoWarm hugs of nice after the slow, torturous death of irony.Sam KrissSeptember 8, 2021September 8, 2021Phoenix is the FutureIf you want to know where the United States is heading, don’t visit the model blue and red locales. A sprawling Sun Belt metropolis that’s all growth and no value is where you want to be.James McDougallAugust 4, 2021August 4, 2021The New Workerist Right’s Industrial Policy FantasyThe well-laid plans of these serious men don’t make much sense, but then they don’t need to.Dominic KingJuly 21, 2021July 21, 2021The Truth of Lockdown, and its EscapeDaniel Defoe and John Donne’s alternative languages of disease and isolation—and their meaning now.Ben HickmanJuly 14, 2021July 14, 2021Where Do Identity Politics Come From?Identity politics is an expression of mass political demobilization, but it is also undergirded by the power of the nonprofit sector.Jan CallowayJuly 7, 2021July 7, 2021Against Social Justice TherapySocial Justice Therapy offers a new guarantee of living the righteous middle-class dream, and risks, despite its intentions, involving therapists in a fraud.Evan DunnJune 30, 2021June 30, 2021The Pitfalls of Polemic, or How to Criticize the Crankiest Class of CriticsA review of Catherine Liu’s Virtue Hoarders.Taylor HinesJune 24, 2021June 24, 2021I know a song that gets on everybody’s nervesWe live in the most annoying of all possible worlds. So why is it so hard to talk about it?Sam KrissJune 17, 2021June 17, 2021The Record Has ShownA review of Sarah Schulman’s new oral history, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.Matthew ZarenkiewiczJune 9, 2021June 8, 2021What is Limbic Capitalism?An interview with historian David Courtwright on his new book, The Age of Addiction.David T. CourtwrightJune 2, 2021May 29, 2021The Sex Addiction Rabbit HoleSex addiction might be a “myth”, but all myths make sense of the world in some particular way. What does “sex addiction” do for us?Benjamin Y. FongMay 26, 2021May 26, 2021Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Four: Notes on the Sex RecessionCan one claim to practice analytic therapy when sexuality no longer threatens the smooth functioning of the rational ego?Lizzie WarrenMay 12, 2021May 12, 2021Stable Locus of Personal IdentityThe revolutionary blockchain technology for solving an old metaphysical problem.Justin E.H. SmithApril 22, 2021April 22, 2021The Two Sides of the Anti-Bernie LeftA light has been turned on in the darkness. Let’s shelve the undergraduate theses and social media invective and see where it can lead us.Damage EditorsApril 14, 2021April 14, 2021Compliant BabyIbram X. Kendi’s Antiracist Baby is undeniably for adults. But what does it do for children?Aurora BorealisApril 7, 2021April 7, 2021The Age of Technopopulism?According to Chris Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, the “populism v. technocracy” dichotomy does not help us make sense of contemporary political reality. Indeed, it is their paradoxical fusion—technopopulism—that underlies all democratic politics today. George HoareMarch 26, 2021March 26, 2021Is the Left to Thank for This Stimulus?If legislation that indicates some meaningful structural shift gets passed, let’s reassess, but until then we should dispense with the comforting illusion of having much sway over a fluid and depressing situation.Dominic KingMarch 18, 2021March 18, 2021In Praise of the BerenstainsBy the standards of most children’s books today, the Berenstains’ series is an absolutely audacious project.Benjamin Y. FongMarch 10, 2021March 10, 2021Young People TodayBecause you could use something uplifting.Damage EditorsMarch 3, 2021March 1, 2021I Saw Love Disfigure Me: A Review of Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out of My HeadTo see how everything fits together, first you have to break it apart.Sam KrissFebruary 24, 2021February 24, 2021The PMC Gets Organized“Minority unions” could be a fruitful path forward at a nadir of labor’s power, but their lack of focus on traditional workplace demands speaks to a worrying professional-managerial class orientation within these pressure groups.Dominic KingFebruary 10, 2021February 10, 2021After Left Populism, Part Two: Pro-Worker Conservatism in the UKThe Tories are reorganizing around an anti-woke, pro-worker, and pro-democracy branding. Unlike other instances of pro-worker conservativism, it could be highly successful.George HoareFebruary 3, 2021February 3, 2021No Homers ClubEnough about what people in the present think of the Odyssey. What does the Odyssey think about us?Sam KrissJanuary 27, 2021January 27, 2021The Core Priority is Working-Class Power: A Review of A Planet to WinFantasies of the “green imagination” are unnecessary, disorienting, and unappealing.Anselm McGovernJanuary 20, 2021January 20, 2021Moral Minoritarianism from the Ashes of Left PopulismFrom its initial task of rethinking mobilization for an age of demobilization, the aim of the remaining Left populists will be to manage mobilization in an age of potential remobilization.George HoareJanuary 13, 2021January 10, 2021Render unto Ourselves, What is Ours—or Caesar Will Seize ItThe political purpose of antifascism in the 21st century is not to stop the Right. It’s to discipline the Left.Alex HochuliDecember 17, 2020December 14, 2020Posts navigationOlder postsMagazineAboutSubscribeShopSupport